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With 122,000 employees worldwide (62,000 in the U.S.) we have a lot of stories to tell. See how we're all working to help people improve their lives.

Stories of continual discovery and transformation

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With the help of a Koch Classroom Grant, a Wichita elementary school teacher is successfully helping her students learn about recycling and entrepreneurship.

Worm Food: Lunch Scraps Nourishing STEM Education at Wichita School

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Molex has developed the world's smallest board-to-board connector, Quad-Row™, which saves 30% more space compared to conventional connector designs. More than 100 million Quad-Row™ connectors have been used in the highest-selling smartwatch worldwide since 2020. 

Molex Drives Innovation in Wearable Tech with World’s Smallest Board-to-Board Connector

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Looking to the future, Georgia-Pacific is working with key partners to manufacture a recyclable padded mailer that can be tossed into any single source recycle bin. The experiment has exceeded expectations and marks another step forward for Georgia-Pacific’s efforts to innovate and invest in the plastic-to-paper packaging transformation.

From Small Experiment to Thriving Business: How Georgia-Pacific Became a Preferred Partner in the Recyclable Padded Mailer Market

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Koch wins highest EPA recognition for third consecutive year, fourth overall; maintains status in Sustained Excellence category

Koch Industries Earns 2023 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Energy Management

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A young Juan Perez decided to transform his life and find a job that could provide him and his young family a better future. He found that job at Koch. It's a decision that changed him and his family in ways he never imagined.

Listen: The Choices That Ripple Beyond Us

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Stephanie Boyer, an engineer at Flint Hills Resources, shares this career advice: stop planning and start doing

How Curiosity, Passion — and Flares — Helped a Koch Engineer Find Career Fulfillment 

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The partnership ‘has the potential to catalyze the type of change’ customers are looking for, ERP Today writes

How Koch and Infor Drive Mutual Benefit for Customers and Each Other

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Jeanine Phillips, the co-founder and executive director of the Phillips Fundamental Learning Center

Koch Industries is a longstanding supporter of education, most recently supporting the Phillips Fundamental Learning Center in Wichita reach and train more teachers with proven, research-based programs for teaching kids to read, write and spell.

Learning from Experience: One Wichita Woman’s Struggle in School is Changing Reading Education

"The fact that the Fundamental Learning Center is a hub to help educators be more effective at teaching reading to different types of students, who learn in different ways, to me, that’s the number one reason it’s important. It's a scalable one-to-many model that can spread to teachers across the country."

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Koch Disruptive Technologies is co-leading an $8 million seed round into Neura Health.

KOCH INVESTS: Taking Better Care of Chronic Headaches

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Koch Disruptive Technologies is leading a $20 million Series A funding round with Volumez, a modern cloud infrastructure startup.

KOCH INVESTS: Turning Up Cloud Solutions with Volumez

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Koch Invests in Oshi Health

Koch Disruptive Technologies is leading a $30 million Series B funding round into Oshi Health, the virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics.

KOCH INVESTS: Value-Based Virtual Digestive Care

As the proud hometown of our global headquarters, Wichita, Kansas, holds a special place in the hearts and lives of Koch employees. These are the stories of people and partnerships helping Wichita flourish. 

The Picture: Koch's Wichita Spotlight Series

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Koch and Catalyte

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Empower Evergreen

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The Phoenix

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Koch Innovation Campus 

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Koch's Pro Bono Initiative 

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Koch Supports the Arts 

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Koch and STEM 

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Wichita Startup Week 

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Botanica

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Second Chance Hiring

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Koch Campus Tour

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Principled Entrepreneurship

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How Koch Hires

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How Koch Invests

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With an assist from Koch Lobs, Koch Engineered Solutions and Percepto partner to bring cutting-edge AI and drone technology to help industrial customers monitor and reduce emissions.

Koch Engineered Solutions and Percepto Join Forces to Bring Cutting-Edge AI and Autonomous Drone Technology to Industrial Customers

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INVISTA employees in Victoria, Texas, use new technology to transform the way they do their jobs and share knowledge with colleagues half a world away.

Technology Upgrades at INVISTA's Victoria, Texas, Facility Drive Global Connections

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In this audio story, we talk with KBX employee Erica Franck about empowerment and her journey to achieve more than she thought possible.